Constructing Deafness

Susan Gregory & Gillian Hartley

This book presents a range of different perspectives on deafness. It examines how deafness and deaf people are viewed within the fields of education, linguistics, social policy, psychology and audiology; as well as the more general presentations of deafness in film and fiction. It also examines the perspective of deaf people themselves. It shows how developments are challenging and re-defining ideologies, and the ways in which society itself defines and constructs a minority socially disabled group. Paperback 319 pages 1991

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